On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 10:53:36 -0700
Dan Egli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Collins Richey wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Nothing has changed on my end (portage, rsync, commuincations, etc.) in a long 
> > time, but rsync is totally dead - always times out.  I've tried disabling the 
> > firewall (stop shorewall, then shorewall clear), but I get the same results 
> > without the firewall.
> > 
> > I'm starting to look at a tcpdump.
> > 
> > Can anyone shed any light on this???
> > 
> > I'm on cable with a router and dhcp, if that makes any difference.  emerge <pkg>, 
> > email, browser, etc. all work normally.  I tried re-emerging rsync.  The problem 
> > exists for any and all rsync mirrors.
> > 
> 
> 
> Of my head sounds like your cable provider started blocking the rsync 
> port. Simple test would be to telnet to one of the rsync mirrors into 
> their rsync port. If you are able to connect then the port is not 
> blocked. If you cannot connect then you are likely looking at a blocked 
> TCP Port. A lot of Cable ISPs do that. My Cable ISP blocks all the 
> netbios ports, which would not be so bad if I did not occasionally need 
> to access my Win32 machines.
> 
> --- Dan
> 
> p.s. if you don't recall the port, you can always just telnet <host> rsync.
> 

I'm thinking that you are correct.  I get the same behavior from the other gentoo 
machine on my local net.  This is apparently a recent change by comcast.

So, this now brings up the related question: what are the implications of only doing 
emerge-webrsync to sync the portage tree?

-- 
Collins - Denver Area - 
Gentoo stable kernel 2.6.2-rc1

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